Software Engineer II

The Microsoft Development Center Serbia, with Offices in Belgrade, started with 1 employee and couple of vendors developing handwriting recognition technology. Today, our focus is much broader as we’re contributing in key areas for Microsoft globally, having 700 full time employees. Largest areas contributing to are Azure Data, Azure Core, Office Product Group, Windows and Web Experiences, Applied Sciences Group.

We offer a wide range of job opportunities that allow you to work on world-class problems and collaborate with world experts. Products and technologies. You can utilize your skills and areas of expertise to work across the stack or focus deep on some particular domain. You will have access to a large variety of learning resources to help you grow and develop your career. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with product managers on defining the future of the product and own the service end-to-end from requirements and design to implementation and operation. Join us and be part of a team that is making a difference in the world! 

We are looking for Software Engineers 2 who are passionate and highly motivated to work on researching, solving deep technical problems, and taking on new challenges. In this role you will collaborate with some of the world's leading experts in this area of technology, and have an excellent opportunity to learn, grow and advance your career.

• BSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related disciplines or equivalent practical experience in software engineering industry

• Software development experience. 
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including, but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python ....
• Ability to effectively communicate in English.
• Great collaboration and team-player skills.

Optional Qualifications:

• Experience in system programming.
• Experience with large scale services, distributed systems.
• Strong customer focus and data driven approach.
• Adaptability in fast paced environment.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Design, produce and deliver software to improve the usability, reliability, scalability, performance, security, etc. of the product, having independence, sense of ownership and drive for areas of ownership

• Contribute with fixing, enhancing, and supporting our products and services, including periodic on-call duties in some teams.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the world to address all requirements needed to .
• Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals.
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems
• Ensuring that design empowers other developers to achieve more, while effectively leveraging components developed by other teams